Ischer, Meir

Born in 1911 in Balchi, Romania, he immigrated to Eretz Israel as a pioneer and worked in paving the Petah-Tikva-Ramatayim-Kfar Saba road and returned to his parents’ home in Romania a year later, In 1935, he returned to Israel, during the Second Maccabiah, where he worked as a volunteer in the fire brigade in Ramat Gan, and in 1936 he enlisted as a guard in the British police. He was an active member of the “Haganah” for work at the “Institute of Judea” in the Borochov neighborhood – a secret factory of IMI that manufactured ammunition and explosives for the Haganah On June 3, 1943, He entered the burning room in order to save friends who were trapped in it, and suddenly a huge explosion killed him and two other friends, who were buried in Ramat Hakovesh. 1959 by his son and in cooperation with Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh.